# deas
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdiːəs/, /ˈdeɪəs/

### Noun

deas (plural deases)
* (Scotland) Alternative form of dais
** 1823, [Walter Scott], “The Man-at-Arms”, in Quentin Durward. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 109:I could never think of a King but what I supposed him sitting under the high deas, and feasting amid his high vassals and Paladins, eating blanc-manger, with a great gold crown upon his head, or else charging at the head of his troops like Charlemagne in the romaunts, or like Robert Bruce or William Wallace in our own true histories.

### References

* “deas”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* ADEs, 'eads, Desa, Eads, sade, AEDs, ṣādē, EADs, Ades, ades, Seda, Saed, SEAD, ESAD, EDAs

## Galician
### Verb

deas
* second-person singular present subjunctive of dar

## Irish
### Etymology

From Old Irish dess (“right-hand; south; right, just; convenient, agreeable”), from Proto-Celtic *dexswos, from Proto-Indo-European *deḱswo-, from *deḱs- (“right-hand side”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dʲasˠ/
* (Cois Fharraige) IPA: /dʲæsˠ/

### Adverb

deas
* (destination) south, southerly, to the south

#### Usage notes

* This word refers only to the ultimate destination of movement (i.e., "to the south").

#### Synonyms

* aduaidh

#### Antonyms

* aneas

#### Derived terms

* deisiúr
* ó dheas (“southwards”)

#### Related terms

* deisceart m (“south”)

#### See also

* theas (position)
* tuaisceart
* thuaidh

### Adjective

deas (genitive singular masculine deis, genitive singular feminine deise, plural deasa, comparative deise)
* right, right-hand (opposite of left)

#### Declension

$^1$ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article. $^2$ When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

#### Derived terms

* comhdheas (“ambidextrous”, adjective)
* deiseal m (“clockwise”)
* deasóg f (“right hand”)

### Adjective

deas (comparative deise)
* (used predicatively) near, close; convenient (~ do (“to”))

### Adjective

deas (genitive singular masculine deas, genitive singular feminine deise, plural deasa, comparative deise)
* right, correct (opposite of wrong)
* nice
* pretty
* honest
* straight

#### Usage notes

In the senses ‘nice’ and ‘pretty’, this adjective takes the adverbial construction go deas when used predicatively after a form of bí:
* Tá an crann seo go deas. ― This tree is nice/pretty.

#### Declension

$^1$ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article. $^2$ When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

#### Derived terms

* comhdheas (“convenient (to)”, adjective)
* deasaigh (“dress”, verb)
* deiseacht f (“nearness”)

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### Further reading

* Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 76
* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “deas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “dess”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

## Latin
### Noun

deās
* accusative plural of dea

## Scottish Gaelic
### Pronunciation

* (Lewis) IPA: /d̥ʲɛs̪/, [d̥ʲʝ̞˖æs̪]
* (Uist, Barra) IPA: /d̥ʲʒes̪/

### Etymology 1

From Old Irish dess (“right-hand; south; right, just; convenient, agreeable”), from Proto-Celtic *dexswos, from Proto-Indo-European *deḱswo-, from *deḱs- (“right-hand side”).

#### Adjective

deas (comparative deise)
* ready, prepared, accomplished
* right, right-hand
* adroit, dexterous, skillful, expert
* trim, spruce
* erect

##### Synonyms

* (right): ceart

##### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “right”): ceàrr, clì
* (antonym(s) of “adroit, dexterous”): mì-dheas, aindeas

##### Derived terms

* briogadh deis m (“right click”)
* deas-àiteachadh m (“agriculture”)
* deas-bhriathrach (“eloquent”, adjective)
* deas-chainnt f (“eloquence”)
* deas-cheumach (“stately in gait; having a neat manner of walking”, adjective)
* deas-fhacal m (“ready word; smart reply”)
* deas-fhear m (“ambidexter”)
* deas-ghluasad m, deas-iomairt f (“proper gestures”)
* deas-ghnàth m (“ceremony”)
* deas-labhair (“articulate”, verb)
* deas-labhairt m (“eloquence, address, fluency of speech; elocution”)
* deas-labhrach (“eloquent, having a command of language”, adjective)
* deas-làmh f (“right hand”)
* deas-làmhach (“right-handed, ambidexterous; dexterous, “neat-handed.”; ready-handed; of, or pertaining to, a right hand”, adjective)
* deas-làmhachd f (“ambidexterity; dexterity, “neatness” of hand”)
* deasaich (“prepare; edit”, verb)
* deiseil (“southward, sunward; clockwise; having a southern exposure; lucky; ready, prepared, finished”)

#### Noun

deas f (genitive singular deise, plural deasan)
* south
    Antonym: tuath

##### Derived terms

* a deas

##### See also

(compass points)
| iar-thuath | tuath | ear-thuath |
| iar | | ear |
| iar-dheas | deas | ear-dheas |

#### Adjective

deas (comparative deise)
* southern, south

### Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Verb

deas
* remain, abide

### References

* ↑ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap, page 106
* ↑ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis)‎, Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh
* ↑ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1937) The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
* ↑ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “dess”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

### Further reading

* Edward Dwelly (1911) “deas”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN

## Spanish
### Noun

deas f pl
* plural of dea